Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor of Management Practice and Academic Director of Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, writes about her latest case study which recently won an award in the EFMD Case Competition in the category of ‘Inclusive Business Model’. While growing up, Richard Bbaale saw his sister missing school due to […]
In my previous article, we covered 10 very commonly stated reasons that people give for wanting to become business owners, and why I think many of those are in fact potentially rather bad reasons. Today we are on a more positive bent, and drawing from my learnings from eight years in entrepreneurship, I’ll cover some what […]
Even though my own entrepreneurship journey is on an indefinitely pause, I still love chatting to people who are thinking of becoming business founders. It is always encouraging to learn that even in the current hyper-competitive, over-monopolised business climate, there are still many people who are willing to take the risk inherent to starting a business […]
In Entrepreneurship, we mostly hear the success stories. The idealist whose concepts changed an industry, the maverick inventor whose products now inhabit countless homes, the whizz kid who raised millions in VC funding – these are the men and women who are called upon to do the fireside chats, the TEDx talks, the guest lectures, […]
SearchSmartly recently became the first property search platform in the world to show air quality data around properties to prospective renters and buyers. SearchSmartly is a 2018 LBS Incubator startup founded by Taha Dar MBA2018. Taha shares why he thinks it is important to innovate continuously. While this new air quality search functionality was months […]
SFR Medical, a social impact MedTech company from this year’s LBS Incubator cohort, was recently selected to represent London Business School at this year’s Santander Universities Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme. The programme is open to students and recent graduates from a Santander Universities UK partner university. It runs from May – September 2020 and features virtual […]
1. It is simply not enough to have a fantastic idea. If you do not put in the blood, sweat and tears necessary to bring an idea to fruition, it will never become more than an idea. Fantastic ideas are wonderful and truly exciting, but gradually over time they either become tired small talks or […]
We hear from Eido Almog (MBA2020) who has been a fundamental part of LBS Launchpad for about two years. Launchpad is a start-up pre-accelerator programme led by our Entrepreneurship Club. Hi Eido, tell us about your background and your decision to join LBS. During my time working as a financial consultant I had the opportunity […]
When the covid-19 crisis hit, entrepreneurs in the LBS community were presented with sudden shocks that threatened to sink their ventures. For many, it was the first time they’d seen a crisis and we wondered how we can support them. Together with faculty at LBS, we came up with the Resilient Founders series to draw […]
It became evident really quickly in lockdown that many businesses were going to struggle and have very little support to deal with issues such as renegotiating leases and looking into government aid. On the other side, there were students who were really willing to help, in typical LBS style, in any way they could, to […]